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| | Novel Summary |
 | | Viewing the Wake is a comic novel in the tradition of Jonathan Franzen, Kurt Vonnegut, Ishmael Reed, and George Saunders. |
 | | Cutting back and forth between flashbacks of a coming-of-age story in Pennsylvania in the 1980s, with a first-person narrative and newspaper stories and TV reports of a future Bill Gates-inspired America, the novel makes a fast-paced, exciting read. |
 | | To name only some of the elements of American culture satirized in this novel: the justice system, animal rights, family dynasties, corporate culture, media monopolies, relations between the sexes, punk music, the death penalty, Christianity, race relations, and modern technology. |
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